New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd takes up the plight of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq last year. If you've been napping for the past few days, let me bring you up to speed. Ms. Sheehan (whom I truly feel sorry for, both because she has […]
National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru points to this Q&A in the New York Times Magazine with Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Q: Do you think Americans are lazy? A: Without a doubt. We're the victims of our own successes and prosperity, which have caused us to change our lifestyles from being people who had to hunt for […]
The New York Times has an editorial today complaining about the jailing of their reporter, Judith Miller, for refusing to reveal her source in the nadagate investigation. In the days after Ms. Miller's arrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that three countries harassed or jailed journalists while pressuring them to reveal their sources. Which […]
If you're a journalist attempting to assuage readers' concerns about your ethics, you shouldn't do that by flaunting your stupidity. The Los Angeles Times' Dana Parsons ignores this basic rule. Have I ever illegally recorded a phone conversation? I can unequivocally deny that, because I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to rig a tape […]
From today's New York Times editorial page (boy, I'm gonna miss it when they start charging): Some Caveats on Job Growth The 207,000 new jobs created in July are a boon to the people who landed them. But American workers are not yet in a position of strength. [. .] because a Democrat is not […]
If the rules allowed it, SoundPolitics.com's Stefan Sharkansky would receive the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Sharkansky is no Hemingway, but he alone has done more to expose the disaster that is the King County (Washington) elections department than the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times combined. In addition to doing extensive research on voterless ballots, […]
If this is accurate -- and Drudge is famously hit-or-miss on these sorts of things -- then I don't think I'll ever need anything more ever again to prove that the New York Times' political coverage is indiscernable from a propaganda rag. Seriously, checking out Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' adopted children is part of […]
American freelance journalist/blogger Steven Vincent was murdered yesterday in Iraq. I was still at work earlier this evening when word came over the wires that Vincent had been killed -- the news will make it into the south and city editions of today’s Union-Tribune. Over the next few days and weeks we will hopefully learn […]
Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw died last night. Though Shaw was disdainful of bloggers (they don't have "four experienced editors" checking their copy), he was also a talented and honest journalist. I first ran across Shaw's work nearly a decade ago as I was working on my senior project at Cal Poly SLO—an […]